14.5% ▲ +11.6%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Normanton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Normanton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Normanton is shaped by a small but steady group of volunteers and carers. While 14.5% of residents give their time to help others, there is a notably lower rate of people performing heavy unpaid housework compared to the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.5% of people in Normanton volunteer, a figure that is about the same as the Queensland and Australian averages.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Only 8.5% of residents provide unpaid care, which is much lower than most areas. This is reflected in the housework data, where only 12.8% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid chores—well below the national figure of 20.7%.
8.5% ▲ +61.3%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.1% ▲ +5.2%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 24.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
12.8% ▼ -15.2%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
Defence service
People who served in the Australian Defence Force.
The proportion of people who have served in the Defence Force is 2.8%, which is about the same as the Australian average.
2.8%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who have ever served in the Australian Defence Force (currently or previously).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Normanton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32165/normanton/topic/community